The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it is sending a federal task force to Boston and three other major U.S. cities “to discuss their responses to incidents of antisemitism at schools and on college campuses in their cities over the last two years.

Leo Terrell, the Department of Justice lawyer who heads the Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, has made multiple appearances on the network and other conservative outlets to unapologetically press the Trump administration’s case for deporting Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil and for yanking federal funding from the university.

Jason Lee, a senior adviser to Mayor Brandon Johnson, was not surprised at the DOJ initiative. He noted the new Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism is targeting three of the same cities whose mayors were summoned to Washington to defend their sanctuary city status before a